Aston Villa vs Everton post-match thread

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I don’t blame Malen for wanting to go, to get more game time. I don’t think he was given enough opportunities at Villa considering I rate him so highly. I assume Unai didn’t and he’s the manager.
Watkins I think is on the slide so, can only hope that Tammy can do the business for us. We missed a huge opportunity when we could have got £100 million for Ollie. Be struggling to get 30 now.

I don’t think there’s ever been a time that we could have got £100m for Ollie Watkins!

[aev]

Surprised we didn’t stick one of the young kids who is a striker on the bench.

Isn’t the Scottish kid Wilson meant to be highly regarded?

[Paul.S]

This is a massive few weeks with regards to the transfer market. No midfield cost us today and Sancho phoning in ill didn’t help.
Poor from Watkins today but we are third from
top not from the bottom so let’s see what Emery can pull out of the bag this week.

[TonyD]

Finishing was rubbish. some of our approach play was sublime. Frustrating.

This.  We played quite well but couldn’t the net. 
Having 3 midfielders out is gonna screw us. 

[SamTheMouse]

If Jordan Bowery and Rudy Gestede had a love child, it would be better at football than Guessand.

[ozzjim]

Our strength is midfielders overloading the box and creating space for the forwards. Today we looked a squad short of a squad. Tielemans had a poor game for him. Rogers couldn't finish his dinner. Watkins was atrocious at almost everything he did. We lacked a wide option and had zero urgency to call on from the bench.

Those bashing Guessand, he's poor, but he fights. He's also potentially a fantastic right back.

[Mister E]

This is a massive few weeks with regards to the transfer market. No midfield cost us today and Sancho phoning in ill didn’t help.
Poor from Watkins today but we are third from
top not from the bottom so let’s see what Emery can pull out of the bag this week.

I'm not sure why you say Watkins was poor ... it's not like he had much service. The disappointment came from Rogers who had several opportunities and couldn't convert.

[Olneythelonely]

The amount of times Konsa refused a ball to Bogarde was ridiculous. If it was Kamara, the ball would have been played. It was either Konsa not trusting him or instruction from Unai, meaning he doesn’t trust him. Either way, it had a big part to play in how particularly slow and laboured we were today.

[andyh]

So sloppy at critical times.
How many times did we pass the ball straight out of play.

There were some good points.
Tielemans did the work of 4 men today.
Cash was decent.
Bogarde was very tidy and Hemmings looked very much at home.

The bad though.
Konsa standing on or holding onto the ball for too long.
Torres fuck up. Thanks for that.
Buendia, runs and buzzes around but is so ineffective. I have said for a while, he has regressed to Buendia 1.0. Nowhere near good enough.
Watkins. Absolutely shit mate. You should be embarrassed by that performance.

Guessand. Wher the hell do you start ? Firstly we have been mugged off massively.
To me he looks like a someone who doesn’t know his teammates. It’s like he’s a stranger who has been brought in, just to make up the numbers.
He looks completely lost, and he can’t run.
They used to call players like him ‘languid’. He’s not languid, he’s just fucking shit.

So disappointed. Yet again when there was a chance to have something really tangible for a positive result.
And yet again, we shit the fucking bed.

[PaulWinch again]

Our strength is midfielders overloading the box and creating space for the forwards. Today we looked a squad short of a squad. Tielemans had a poor game for him. Rogers couldn't finish his dinner. Watkins was atrocious at almost everything he did. We lacked a wide option and had zero urgency to call on from the bench.

Those bashing Guessand, he's poor, but he fights. He's also potentially a fantastic right back.

Seeing Grealish ghost past him not sure about that. Not aimed at you, but I think the right back talk is clutching at straws because he works hard. He’s just not very good.

[PeterWithesShin]

We often talk about control but I felt it was a bit more frantic today. Which isn't a surprise with no SJM, Onana and Booby. They give us that control that allows us to do what we do. If those 3 are out for a while we're going to have to change a bit I reckon.

[Sexual Ealing]

So sloppy at critical times.
How many times did we pass the ball straight out of play.

There were some good points.
Tielemans did the work of 4 men today.
Cash was decent.
Bogarde was very tidy and Hemmings looked very much at home.

The bad though.
Konsa standing on or holding onto the ball for too long.
Torres fuck up. Thanks for that.
Buendia, runs and buzzes around but is so ineffective. I have said for a while, he has regressed to Buendia 1.0. Nowhere near good enough.
Watkins. Absolutely shit mate. You should be embarrassed by that performance.

Guessand. Wher the hell do you start ? Firstly we have been mugged off massively.
To me he looks like a someone who doesn’t know his teammates. It’s like he’s a stranger who has been brought in, just to make up the numbers.
He looks completely lost, and he can’t run.
They used to call players like him ‘languid’. He’s not languid, he’s just fucking shit.

So disappointed. Yet again when there was a chance to have something really tangible for a positive result.
And yet again, we shit the fucking bed.

Doesn't even rhyme!

[Mister E]

Our strength is midfielders overloading the box and creating space for the forwards. Today we looked a squad short of a squad. Tielemans had a poor game for him. Rogers couldn't finish his dinner. Watkins was atrocious at almost everything he did. We lacked a wide option and had zero urgency to call on from the bench.

Those bashing Guessand, he's poor, but he fights. He's also potentially a fantastic right back.

Guessand is not a fricking RB: too slow and ponderous.
Re the wide option, someone above suggested that we maybe should have brought Digne in for McGinn and moved Maatsen forward: probably a better option than Guessand, given the general lack of experience on the bench.

[andyh]

Guessand as a right back
The bloke can’t fucking run.

[PeterWithesShin]

"He was very lucky indeed..."

Should James Garner have received a second yellow card against Aston Villa?

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